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2019 Baseball Roster

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    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Austin, Texas
    Hometown
  • 5'10
    Height
  • 195
    Weight
  • Stephen F. Austin HS
    High School
Richard Cunningham headshot 2019
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Richard Cunningham
OF
Position
Senior
Class
Austin, Texas
Hometown

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Biography

Career Honors
· 2019 First Team All-Big 12
· 2019 Senior CLASS Award Finalist
· 2019 Shriners Children's College Classic All-Tournament Team
· 2019 Shriners Hospitals for Children Service Award Recipient
· 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America
· 2018 CoSIDA Academic All-District Seven Team 
· 2018 Second Team All-Big 12 
· 2018 All-Big 12 Tournament Team 
· 2018 Bobby Bragan Collegiate Slugger Award Watch List
· 2017 Big 12 Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year
· 2017 Big 12 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship
· 2017 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
· Four-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team selection (2016-2019)
· 10-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall 2014-19, Spring 2015-19)
· Nine-time Dean's List honoree

2019 (Senior)
Started all 54 games in center field for the Bears as a senior after playing the 2018 campaign with a torn UCL ... First-Team All-Big 12 outfielder ... Senior CLASS Award finalist ... Named to Shriners Children's College Classic All-Tournament Team ... Recipient of the 2019 Shriners Hospitals for Children Service Award ... Academic All-Big 12 First Team honoree for the fourth-consecutive season ... Tallied Baylor's fourth-longest single-season hit streak at 23 games, 21 of which were during conference play setting a Baylor record for longest Big 12 hit streak ... Hit .326 on the season and led the team in hits (76) for the second consecutive season ... Hit five home runs and drove in 31 runs ... Also led the squad with six stolen bases ... Notched 21 multi-hit games, 14 multi-run games and seven multi-RBI efforts ... Matched his career best with five hits against Holy Cross (2/16) ... Left Baylor in eighth place on the program's all-time leaderboard in career at-bats (806), seventh in runs scored (169) and hits (256), and ninth in triples (14).

2018 (Junior)
Played in 55 games with 52 starts as designated hitter and three starts in center field … Google Cloud Academic All-America Team … CoSIDA Academic All-District Seven Team … Academic All-Big 12 First Team … Second Team All-Big 12 … All-Big 12 Tournament Team … Big 12 Player of the Week (5/14) … Bragan Award Watch List … Set career highs of .342 batting average, 45 runs, 77 hits, nine home runs, 38 RBI and six stolen bases … Led team in batting average, hits and stolen bases … Placed eighth in conference with .342 batting average, 77 hits and 122 total bases … Had 20 multi-hit, 13 multi-run and 11 multi-RBI games … Posted 11 games with at least three hits … Collected career-high five hits and tied career-high with four runs vs. OSU (5/11) … Notched first-career multi-home run game with two and totaled career-high 11 total bases at Texas (4/6) … Hit home runs in back-to-back games twice (4/17-4/18, 5/11-5/12) … Had 11-game hitting streak from April 13-28 … Hit home runs vs. Kansas (3/24), two at Texas (4/6), vs. Texas Southern (4/17), vs. UAPB (4/18), at Kansas State (4/27), vs. Prairie View A&M (5/8), vs. OSU (5/11, 5/12).
2017 (Sophomore)
Played in 48 games with 45 starts in center field ... Program's first Big 12 Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... All-Big 12 honorable mention ... Academic All-Big 12 first team ... Big 12 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship honoree ... Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (spring 2017, fall 2017) ... Dean's List (spring 2017) ... Posted career highs in average (.306), hits (52), doubles (15), RBI (29), and tied career high with five home runs ... Registered 14 multi-hit games, 10 multi-RBI and five multi-run games ... Ended season on career-high 12-game hitting streak and season-long 12-game on-base streak from May 10-June 3 ... Tied career high with three doubles vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2/28) ... Tied career high with three hits vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (2/28), vs. Prairie View A&M (5/10) and vs. Kansas State (10/18) ... Tied career high with three walks vs. South Alabama (2/26) ... Tied career high with four runs scored vs. Kansas State (5/18) ... Hit homers vs. Niagara (2/17), at No. 6 Texas Tech (4/9), at No. 7 TCU (4/22), at Oklahoma State (5/14) and vs. Kansas State (5/18).

2016 (redshirt Freshman)
Made 51 starts and 52 appearances in center field ... Academic All-Big 12 first team ... Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (fall 2015, spring 2016) ... Dean's List (fall 2015) ... Ranked 52nd in NCAA and second in Big 12 with five triples ... Had team-high in runs (40) ... Tied for first in fielding percentage (.992) ... Finished second on team in steals (3-for-4) and tied for second in walks (19) ... Had on-base streak of 15 games ... Had 14 multi-hit games ... Recorded first collegiate hit vs. Washington (2/19) ... Went 2-for-5 with his first collegiate home run, run, and multi-RBI game vs. Washington (2/20) ... Had season-high three walks vs. Stony Brook (2/26) ... Went 3-for-4 with three runs and eight RBI (one shy of school record set in 1998) with home run, triple, and walk vs. Stony Brook (2/27) ... Hit third homer of season at West Virginia (4/30) ... Posted eight multi-run, 14 multi-hit, eight multi-RBI and three multi-walk games.

2015 (Freshman)
Redshirted during 2015 season ... Dean's List (fall 2014, spring 2015, fall 2015) ... Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (fall 2014, spring 2015, fall 2015).

High School
Four-year letterwinner for coach Glenn Bacak at Stephen F. Austin High School ... Team captain for the Maroons in 2014 ... 2014 All-Central Texas and All-State recognitions ... Unanimous First-Team All-District as a senior ... 2014 Perfect Game All-Texas Region honorable mention ... All-District second team as a junior ... All-District first team (unanimous) as a sophomore ... Named team's Rookie of the Year as a freshman ... Played travel ball in Premier Baseball League for Coach James Ellison from 2010-2014 ... Helped team go 34-1 in 2011 for a national championship ... Helped team go 40-8 in 2013 for a co-national championship.

Personal
Born on May 4, 1995 ... Son of Kyle and Betty Cunningham ... Brother, Michael, was captain of Santa Clara's rugby team ... Also has younger sister, Cara ... National Honor Society member ... Member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ... Four-time Academic All-District honoree ... Finance major.